European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 17, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 9chances dim for quake survivors Erz incan Turkey a Hopes faded monday that any More survivors will be found from last weeks devastating earthquake and newspapers reported looting and complaints about slow moving government Relief efforts. The government and Relief officials put the death toll at up to 800. Initial estimates had ranged into the thousands. The quake left As Many As 180,000 homeless according to turkish government and red Crescent figures cited by the office of . Disaster Relief coordinator in Geneva. A fifth Relief flight from in Ciurlik a to Erz incan took off in spite of rain monday morning. Mondays c-130 Hercules Mission May be the last flight possible for a few Days. Forecasts indicate that weather along the 300-mile route Between in Ciurlik and Erz incan May be bad. Visibility Over Erz incan according to predictions May also deteriorate making Landing there hazardous. The aircraft carried fuel for portable lighting equipment and a four wheel drive vehicle for personnel both flown into Erz incan on sunday said air Force staff sgt. Doris Jackson of the operation provide Comfort combined information Bureau. Meanwhile turkeys Premier an Engineer rejected opposition claims he was personally responsible for poor construction of a Hospital that collapsed in fridays quake. Premier Suleyman Demirel brushed aside charges from an opposition Leader former Premier Yildirim Akbulut who blamed Demirel for poor construction of a Hospital in Erz incan that collapsed. Demirel said his company won the contract to build the Hospital in 1963, but that others continued the work after he became Active in politics. The government already has announced an inquiry into building practices in the Eastern City of Erz incan All but flattened by the temblor which measured 6.8 on the Richter scale. In Enz incan residents pitched tents and built campfires As temperatures slipped below freezing. Hundreds of people milled around the governors office trying to get help. Aftershocks continued to rattle the stricken area sunday hampering Rescue efforts. But two people were pulled alive sunday from under the wreckage of an office Block More than 50 hours after the earthquake hit. Thousands of tents blankets and other emergency Relief material were sent to the quake zone but newspapers said the Relief operation was poorly organized and Many people were still without proper shelter. Theft of Relief supplies was reported too. Mustafa Kul a parliamentary Deputy said about 1,000 tents were stolen. The Istanbul daily Mill yet reported Relief supplies were being sold on the Black Market with tents Selling for $330 and blankets for $15. The High death toll was blamed in part on illegal additions to buildings and poor construction. Some officials said builders ignored guidelines established after a 1939 earthquake killed 32,000 people in Erz incan. The newspaper Tucuman said it was illegal to construct buildings higher than three stories because of the earthquake danger. Nearly All the 200 buildings that collapsed were multistory structures Many of four or five floors. Some turks complained the governments response was slow and disorganized. Many turkish Rescue workers were volunteers without training or equipment. Rescue teams from Switzerland Germany the United states Denmark Italy and other countries have brought trained dogs and blow torches cranes and other equipment to help find survivors. Ursula Steeb 21, a member of a Rescue team from Germany gives her trained dog Sara a hand As they search sunday for earthquake victims at Erz incan turkey.5 More bodies recovered from North sea crash amp a a London up a Rescue teams have recovered five More bodies from the wreckage of a helicopter that plummeted into the North sea off the scottish Shet and islands killing 11 people. The super Puma helicopter was carrying two Crew members and 15 workers from the 300,000-ton Shell Cormorant Alpha Oil Rig platform saturday. It was headed to the accommodation Barge Safe supporter about 200 Yards away when it crashed. The Accident occurred on one of the years coldest and windiest nights in the North sea with freezing weather and 35-foot Waves. Sue survivors including the Pilot were rescued and six bodies recovered after the helicopter crashed 100 Miles Northeast of Lerwick Shetland. Five More bodies were found sunday night a police spokesman said. Chris Fay managing director of Shell exploration said a telescopic Bridge linking the two structures had been out of operation for three Days because of the weather. A spokesman for Bristow helicopters the company operating the super Puma helicopter said the aircraft was operating within its safety limits. Malcolm Rifkind Britain a transport Secretary ordered an inquiry into the crash. A a we will need to know whether it was weather conditions that contributed or whether it was something to do with the helicopter itself a Rifkind said. But Union leaders called for an examination into the conditions in which the North sea helicopters Fly. A the work Force must have a say in the safety of their helicopter transport which includes the conditions in which it flies a said Roger Lyons general Secretary of the offshore workers Union mss. Frank Doran of the opposition labor party also expressed concern about the third major loss of life involving helicopters in the North sea since 1986. Paper says Witt s Stasi files show skater had it made Berlin a the tabloid Bild claims to have seen Katarina Witt s old East German state Security Stasi police files and they portray a Star who made plenty of demands on her communist state and had most of them fulfilled the paper said. Among the favors the two time olympic figure skating Champion requested from the now defunct East German state Bild listed cars for herself and her family an apartment and a vacation Home travel permissions for her parents and even repairs of her television set. Witt paid for everything herself Germany a largest circulation newspaper said monday in what it claimed was the first detailed report on her privileges. A i am not surprised that such files were kept a she was quoted As saying by Bild. A i always knew that everything was being  As one of East Gemi any a Best known and highest profile stars Witt enjoyed a Standard of living Ordinary East germans could Only dream of. While East germans usually spent 10 years waiting for a simple locally produced car Witt apparently was Given top priority in getting several cars for herself and her family. She drove a West German made Volkswagen Golf and a soviet made Lada jeep and her parents obtained an East German made Wartburg Bild said. Russia denies report that Iran obtained 2 nuclear missiles Moscow apr russian and kazakh officials on monday denied a German Magazine report that Iran has obtained two Middle Range nuclear missiles and their delivery systems from the former soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. Stern Magazine said sunday that vice president Paul Minstermann of the Federal intelligence service reported the development to the chancellors a a Security service. The Magazine said the report was made More than two weeks ago. Iran however has not obtained the codes needed to detonate the warheads Stern added. And it does not have a suitable launching mechanism the Hamburg based Magazine said. Russian defense ministry spokesman Ivan Krolnik said a the report is not True. A fall nuclear weapons Are under the strictest centralized control. A Selling them or stealing them is  Stern speculated that Iran would use the warheads for study As part of its nuclear weapons development program. In Washington . News and world report quoted an unidentified High ranking russian officer in Moscow As confirming a . Intelligence report that three Short Range nuclear weapons Nave vanished from a former red army Arsenal in Kazakhstan. The Magazine said analysts suspect the weapons have been sold to Iran